The project joins a cadre of small screen western efforts, including AMC's upcoming series Hell On Wheels, set during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s, and A&E pilot Longmire, about a widowed sheriff in Absaroka County, Wyoming.

More recently, TNT ordered Gateway, while ABC and CBS nabbed David Zabel's Gunslinger and James Mangold's Ralph Lamb, respectively.